Edmund: 703 books
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state.
A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts...
Marcel Proust
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive...
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A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer...
by Edmund Venables
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fascinating biography of John Bunyan, the Christian writer and preacher famous for his work ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’, written by the historian and literary scholar Edmund Venables.
Henry I (Penguin Monarchs)
The Father of His People
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness and intelligence and through the dynastic legacy of his daughter Matilda, who began the Plantagenet...
Parallel Worlds
The Heroes Within
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2019
Heroes and villains are not always on the opposite ends of the spectrum of good and evil. Sometimes, all that separates them is a fine line. The stories within "Parallel Worlds" explore the lives of such heroes and what drives them -- and what keeps them from crossing over to the other side.
This...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Harvard Classics Volume 40
English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
A Boy's Own Story
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
“An extraordinary novel” about growing up gay in the 1950s American Midwest (The New York Times Book Review).
Critically lauded upon its initial publication in 1982 for its pioneering depiction of homosexuality, A Boy’s Own Story is a moving tale about coming-of-age in midcentury America.
With...
by Andrés Barba, Edmund White
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
A Guardian Best Book of 2017
Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.”-Edmund...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative and classical liberal intellectuals, who recast Burke's Whig arguments as a critique of Communism and Socialist revolutionary programs.
by Edmund Spenser, Neil Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) was an English Renaissance poet often considered to be the foremost poet of his time by many of his contemporaries. His early career, much like Virgil's, was spent writing pastoral and elegiac verse, but The Faerie Queene is his masterpiece, an unfinished allegorical epic...
Truth of a Hopi
Stories Relating to the Origin, Myths and Clan Histories of the Hopi
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In the Truth of a Hopi, Edmund Nequatewa relates the Hopis' myths, legends, belief systems, and oral history. Nequatewa's writings give us a glimpse into the psyche of the Hopi in the way that only a Hopi could. Here you will find not only the traditional oral histories, but stories of how the Hopi...
by Edmund Rice
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Until a series of life altering misfortunes struck at his heels, Aventro ïght had remained unaware of the dark clouds eternally hanging over his head.
When compelled by rural adversity to travel to Arcra to better his life, he had no idea what was in store for him, until he walked into a cosmic storm, and everything about his life took a dizzying twist.